in reply to reverse phone number lookup

Just out of curiosity, what are reverse lookups good for? I can see where finding such information would be useful in a telemarketer war dialing scheme, or in spying on someone, or in perhaps stalking them. But all these are evil.

-Mark

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Re^2: reverse phone number lookup
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Aug 12, 2004 at 17:13 UTC
    Verifying that the number you got from the hot blonde at the bar is actually hers. :-)

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